Is it safe?
Can AME take a bad year?
Ametek carries $1.54B of net debt at 0.63× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$1.54B
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.63×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.59× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 7.88
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 21.1×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $2.04B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $495M
- Net debt
- $1.54B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $2.46B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $2.04B
- Debt / equity
- 0.18×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.83×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 23%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −43%
- Below its 52-week high
- −5.1%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.